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There is far too much land clearing going on in Cameron Highlands. Ever so often it would come out in the newspaper. And what has the authorities done about them? Almost nothing. Just lip service.
No doubt land is scarce in the highlands for growing vegetables. There should be a systematic way of doing agriculture without jeopardizing the environment.
Stern action to be taken against the ...

Here's an interesting article about the various cool highlands in Malaysia. It has some interesting bits of history too about each of the highlands mentioned here starting with Bukit Fraser, Cameron Highlands, Penang Hill and Maxwell Hill (Bukit Larut).
Cool, cool hills
By Anwardi Jamil
19 May 2013
More than just a reprieve from the tropical heat, old hill stations are still charming and ...

Landslide are common occurrence in Cameron Highlands. Wherever there are hill-slope, high rainfall, insufficient vegetation to prevent soil erosion, landslide would occur. Although I have not faced such misfortune, I don't want to think about it whenever I go up the highlands. After all, disaster is beyond our human control and I leave it to God for our protection and safe journey.
If PWD can ...

Fancy having a Cluedo style dinner at Cameron Highlands Resort! Instead of playing a board game, how about doing it role playing style?! So this was what the YTL Cameron Highlands Resort hotel did! Of course at the end of mystery play time the mystery would be solved and the murderer found.
But the same can't be said of the real mystery of Jim Thomson disappearance. Without sufficient evidence, ...

Jim Thompson the Thai Silk King disappeared mysteriously 45 years ago in Cameron Highlands. Til this day nobody knows what happened to him as his body was never found. It is one of those mystery of Cameron Highlands that still intrigues today.
Re-living the day Jim Thompson went missing
By Michael Cheang
Monday March 26, 2012
On the 45th anniversary of Jim Thompson's disappearance in Cameron ...

Green Cow residents demand A-G drop charges against three who obstructed developer
By Joseph Sipalan
Tuesday March 6, 2012 MYT 11:50:00 AM
PUTRAJAYA: Residents of Green Cow in Cameron Highlands are demanding that the Attorney-General drop charges against three people who obstructed earth works in their hillside village.
Some 30 residents of Green Cow and PSM members claimed the earth works were ...

Found these 2 SMS from the news, "SMS your views". Read for your info. As for the high cost of tea, would be good if the SMS info the place or restaurant overcharging for all to note. Then again, the establishment may end up fuming take up an axe and come after my blog. Anyway, do ask about pricing before eating if their prices are not displayed. I think one or two black sheep restaurant in ...

Found this news about Swiss Garden International Hotel. It seems they will be adding some properties in Ringlet Cameron Highlands. The news wasn't clear whether it will be hotel or apartment or both. Will wait and see.
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Swiss-Garden to manage sister hotel in Malacca
Saturday February 25, 2012
SWISS-Garden International Hotels, Resorts & Inns signed an agreement to manage the Swiss-Garden ...

Mossy Forest Boardwalk to Gunung Brinchang being repaired and should be ready in a months time. Great to give this a go for some outdoor adventure hiking. And yes, people have lost their way resulting in a search and rescue so the boardwalk serves as guide to stick to the path and avoid getting lost. Now that it is under repair they have closed the mossy forest jungle trail for now. According to ...

Often when I go to Cameron Highlands, I see people collecting water from the hillslope. I have heard that the water is considered healthy because of the perception of being sourced naturally from nature. Yet on the other hand we do not know the actual source and whether there is any contamination to the water collected. Of course people want to improve their health wherever possible and if it ...

Confusing signs on the Camerons road
Wednesday February 15, 2012
RECENTLY, my family and I went on a trip to Cameron Highlands. We travelled via Simpang Pulai and on the way we observed two road signs that kept appearing along the road and the two always appeared together (as seen in the photo) [editor: didn't find the photo...].
The first road sign, a white circle with a black diagonal stripe ...

You can only get petrol from two towns - Ringlet and Brinchang. If I recall correctly, you can find Shell station in Ringlet and Brinchang and Petronas in Brinchang. I don't ever recall any petrol stations was ever set up in Tanah Rata since long time ago, so I suppose this DAP deputy chairman must have recalled it from his earlier days. Anyway, Cameron Highlands is not a big place and may not be ...

Whenever it rains too much, we get vegetable shortage as the harvest from the farmers reduced. And that means price increase. No choice but to pay for it, we still need to eat. When it comes to food prices, not just vegetables, but a wide variety of food items has been increasing price for the past many years due to many factors not just due to poor harvest from bad weather, but also from ...

Cameron Highlands vegetable prices going up adding to the raising prices of many food essential is adding to the woes of people in Malaysia. My mom-in-law is sure going to complain a lot since she does the marketing!
As for me, I have seen the general prices of food increasing in leaps and bounds! Just last weekend my wife went to purchase a can of sweetened condense milk and she said it was so ...

Hey guys, do be careful when using the Simpang Pulai Road to Cameron Highlands. Apparently there is a stretch that is prone to soil movement and thus landslide. Hopefully the Public Works Department will be able to make repairs to avoid any mishap.
So far while travelling, I seldom think about such so much and leave it to God for journey mercies. So far my trips to Cameron Highlands has been ...

Rain, rain, rain in Cameron Highlands! Didn't quite make it back to Greenhill Apartment, so got a bit wet. Baby was alright. So now we could not load up our luggage to the MPV. Fortunately the apartment owner was kind enough to allow us to wait till the rain stop before we load up and move on back to KL/PJ.
Meamwhile we hold up in the apartment and watch some Astro.
Our next stop is to be at ...

What a wet trip to Cameron Highlands. It was raining pretty frequent making the weather rather cold. I think tonight the temperature would easily hit 16 degrees Celcius.Fortunately there were breaks in the raining pattern and we still managed to go some places like the Sg Palas Boh Tea Plantation.Tonight we will go for dinner at Jasmine Cafe House. My wife said she ate there before. Could be, but ...

Here's a nice view of Heritage Hotel from Greenhill Apartment. Due to lack of available rooms in hotel from the Heritage Vacation Club, we had to shift to Greenhill Apartment the next day to house a large number of family members.
Actually could have avoided all this hassle but due to miscommunication from my wife and my dad and the Heritage Vacation Club, the bookings became a mess. So no choice ...

Time to take a break and travel to Cameron Highlands once again! This time round my dad would like to finish using his Heritage Vacation Club points so my parent, Lena, her mom and her sis together with baby will be tagging along. This will be the first time for good old baby to travel to his dad favorite vacation spot in Malaysia!Yeah! Would be very interesting trip for him and bet his head will ...

Looks like there are some minor landslide along the Simpang Pulai stretch. Whenever it rains, soil erosion occurs and when the ground becomes liquefied, it won't be able to hold the weight of the soil and landslide occurs.
Danger up high
Friday August 12, 2011
A bus passing through a stretch of the Simpang Pulai- Cameron Highlands road. — Saiful Bahri / The Star
THE Perak Public Works ...

Cameron Highlands landslide: Seven dead
Published: Monday August 8, 2011 MYT 8:08:00 AM
Updated: Monday August 8, 2011 MYT 1:44:12 PM
CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Seven people, including a family of three, died in Sunday's landslide at Kampung Sungai Ruil, near Brinchang in Cameron Highlands, with two others surviving the incident.
A Fire and Rescue Department spokesman said the last victim was found at ...

Arrested in hotel room for wearing Bersih t-shirts
Cameron Highlands police invaded the privacy of four people by arresting them for wearing Bersih t-shirts inside their hotel room.
KUALA LUMPUR: In a blatant invasion of privacy, the police arrested four people on holiday in Cameron Highlands by entering their hotel room at 1am on Sunday. The reason for the arrest: they were wearing Bersih ...

Here's a resident of Cameron Highlands complaining about the traffic jams and road congestion of this popular Cameron Highlands resort. If it was me, I would be fuming mad at the heavy traffic whenever a peak weekend or peak holiday season attraction thousands of tourist. Since I'm just a tourist having a love for this popular Malaysia highland, taking a break from the rat race of KL only to face ...

The skilled need to be wooed back
Tuesday June 21, 2011
IT was with interest I read that a man from relatively humble beginnings in Cameron Highlands, Sam Chong, is among Australia’s richest persons with wealth estimated at around A$950mil (RM3.06bil), made from coal mining (“I did it mine-way! M’sian-born Chong among Aussie’s richest” – The Star, June 20).
Like Datuk Jimmy Choo, here is ...

My website will be down for short periods during the following days. My hosting at SBI is doing some major upgrade so just have to bear with for the better running of the website in future. Here's the info sent to me, you can have look see if you happen to be unable to load up on my main Cameron Highlands Destination website. Cheers!---Some downtime is needed for some major upgrades to our ...

June, 19. 2011
MELBOURNE: A man from humble beginnings in Cameron Highlands is today Australia's wealthiest Malaysian-born with a fortune of A$950mil (RM3.06bil) made from coal mining.
Sam Chong, 68, has kept a low profile and managed to avoid the limelight until last week when the Business Review Weekly (BRW) named him in its "Rich 200" list.
Publicity-shy Chong, a mining engineer, is rarely ...

A long walk down
Saturday June 4, 2011
I have one more year to retirement.
My working life has been very interesting as I have met so many people with unique characters.
During our company’s recent team building trip to Cameron Highlands, the boss hired a small 25-seater coach for the 21 people on the trip. Among us was a young girl, fresh from school, who was normally quite talkative at work. ...

More incinerators needed for waste disposal
Thursday May 26, 2011 MYT 5:26:00 PM
LANGKAWI: More incinerators must be built in the country as landfills can no longer be accepted as the best option for waste disposal in the future, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heong said.
He said on environmental and health-related grounds, incinerators would also be the preferred choice ...

Looks like many people is planning to go Cameron Highlands in the upcoming super long weekend! With the Malaysian holidays and school breaks around the corner it is sure going to be a nice crowd up there.My parents did a good planning and went up last weekend. Hope they had a good time.As for me, with so many busy things to do, I doubt I will be going up to Cameron Highlands anytime soon. Missed ...

I wanted to join my church members who were planning to head off to Cameron Highlands to scout for makan places and make arrangement for their upcoming cell meeting event. I would have liked to stay in the mission bungalow and perhaps even show them some of the interesting attractions and restaurants that i have discovered and of course fellowship with them too. But due to unforeseen ...

Cuti-Cuti road in bad shape
Wednesday April 6, 2011
I AM a frequent traveller from and to Cameron Highlands and most of the time I use the road to Tapah.
This road is in a very bad condition on the Perak side. There are so many potholes and depressions along the road that makes driving very difficult.
Even after the potholes have been patched up, heavy use of this road by lorries transporting ...

Gah! Sometimes so busy no time to update website. Sometimes it is due to work, sometimes family things, and yet again sometimes just want to relax and end up procrastinating! Ah!Sometimes when think about the things that need to update, feels overwhelming coz got so much to do!Ever feel like this? Sure you do! Just got to do it no matter what!Get a move on man! ...

This Cameron Highlands website or blog is thhe best there is. It's culmination of hardwork with a lot of time and effort put to be the best website about the Malaysian highlands. And when people regard me as a guru and seek you out for advice, you know you are very top on the list. Still there is much work to be done as my website is incomplete! My church friends was asking about where to have ...

Volunteers commended for rescuing tourist
Monday March 28, 2011
KUANTAN: It was the cooperation between the public and police that saved Lee Wonk-seok, son of the South Korean Ambassador to Malaysia, after he went missing at Gunung Brinchang, Cameron Highlands.
Businessman Ramakrishnan Ramasamy, 45, said he, along with 12 other volunteers and the police managed to locate Lee, in his 20s, in a ...

Whoa! Received this link about a family using a child trying to shop lift this shop in Cameron Highlands. C'mon, is the economy so bad that they have to resort to this kind of criminal activity?
The shop owners were shocked. I'm shaking my head and wondering where this world is headed. Maybe they are taking their cue from the current ruling government, if you can get away with murder, then ...

My wife wanted to have a lookee see at some baby stuff at Desa Park City and later I need to get some grocery and Desa Park City got Max Value, a Jusco mini supermarket. So off we go with my mom-in-law and niece in tow. Niece is very happy to go for an outing, for a 2 year old she's been clamouring to go out just about every other day. It was long wet ride finally arriving at Desa Park City. ...

Really how difficult it is to just pick up the telephone and dial the numbers on my Cameron Highlands website? I have already done all the tedious legwork of running around up there in Cameron Highlands sacrificing my leisure time (although I do enjoy the romp) to collect the accommodation contacts and then compiling it and posting it onto my website.Take for instance the homestays contacts in ...

Cameron Organic Produce Restaurant not only provides healthy steamboat meals using organic vegetables, they also sell organic products in their restaurant shop. Make an appointment and go for an agro-tourism Malaysia organic farming tour! ...

The Cameron Highlands Desa Anthurium Apartments are located between Tanah Rata and Brinchang and serve as a convenient distance between the two towns. The buildings are well kept and serve as a good place to accommodate your entire family or friends! ...

While browsing through the HSBC Smart Privileges brochure, invariably I would peek in to the hotel promotion. Guess what? I found two hotel promotions for Cameron Highlands! The Equatorial Cameron Highlands Hotel and Hotel De La Ferns. So if any of you guys are holding a HSBC credit card, you could have a look see look see on the promotion and see if this meets your budget. These are not your ...

Decided to do a minor makeover of Cameron Highlands Destination homepage. Not much, still kept the signature earthy brown background with musky blue. I guess this is my website branding colour I suppose. Added the Facebook like panel so now visitors can 'like' and join the Facebook pages. It's been growing too! Social website to the fore! I think I still need to do some tweaking to the home page ...

Wishing all my blog readers, facebook and twitter friends, a Happy and Properous Chinese New Year! As the rabbit hops in to usher the New Lunar Year hops in prosperity, good health, good friends and brings the family closer together! May God smile on you grant you wisdom, blessings and abundance overflowing! HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! ...

No more Brinchang Night Market? Well if Majlis Cameron Highlands says so everybody has to follow. Majlis plans to shift the night market to Tanah Rata. So in future it will be known as Tanah Rata Night Market and with brings along all the goodies and trash with it.So Tanah Rata will become more lively as visitors will get to 'borong' all the veggies and stuff their mouths full of ...

Whoa! I'm not sure just what happened! Just received the Maxis bill and saw my SMS text greeting being sent out as MMS! Which means I'm now charge by MMS rate rather than the cheaper SMS rate. Could this beautiful text graphic be the cause? If so, I won't forward it anymore. I'm just going to send plain boring text instead in future. ☆。★。☆。★ 。☆。 *。☆。 ★。＼ ｜ ／。★ *GREETINGS* ★。／｜＼。★ 。☆。*。☆。 ...

According to my Casio watch, the temperature now is 22.2 degrees Celcius in my room. With the monsoon rain, I'm feeling a little cold. I didn't bring my jacket and resorted to wearing 2 t-shirts to keep warm. Fortunately I just bought a pair of jeans from Queensbay Mall the other night and decided to use it without washing it first. Now I'm tired and will plonk off to sleep! Cheers! ...

Got a chance to view Mr Chen's English Home styled Desa Anthurium apartment. Also met up with his agent contact and had a good chat with him about the real estate situation in Cameron Highlands. I may just consider investing in a unit, but my wife has some doubt. When it comes to real estate investment it is a major decision and commitment, but it is still much better keeping money in Fixed ...

I'm dead tired and need to get some sleep! Especially since the night before and uneven sleep. Coupled with long journey, a good night's rest is a must! With the pitter-patter raindrops I should be getting some good shut eye tonight I hope! ...

Got a chance to view Mr Chen's English Home styled Desa Anthurium apartment. Also met up with his agent contact and had a good chat with him about the real estate situation in Cameron Highlands. I may just consider investing in a unit, but my wife has some doubt. When it comes to real estate investment it is a major decision and commitment, but it is still much better keeping money in Fixed ...

Whooee! I guess the monsoon is still affecting the weather in Malaysia, and Cameron Highlands is no different. Frequent rain and light drizzle makes for a dreary time as it really hampers your things to do in Cameron Highlands. ...

Here's wishing everybody in the whole wide world:A Happy New Year !!! As the 2010 passes, reflecting on events both good and bad,forgive those who wrong usand ask for forgiveness to those that we wronged;may the world work together to bring goodthough that may be wishful thinking since there will always be self centered peoplewe will just have to tolerate with themas we strive to better ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! This is the day Jesus Christ was born, to bring light to the world, to bring hope and a new life to those who accepts Him. May God bring you peace, prosperity in abundance, health and everlasting joy for the coming year! God bless you all! Cheers! ...

This bus tragedy at the Simpang Pulai Cameron Highlands road is really sad and shocking. Woke up to see this big news splattered on the front page of Star newspaper. With so many people dead and injured, it is truly unfortunate. It should have been a merry making time enjoying the sights and sound of the highlands but now those that survive can only carry the grim memory of the mishap. Although ...

Blue Valley Flowers Farm Cameron Highlands is tucked away in between farms in the Blue Valley area of Cameron Highlands. The nursery here sells potted plants and you can pick your own strawberry! And they got chirping birds for sale too! ...

Green View Garden Cameron Highlands is located along the Simpang Pular route. Here you can find various strawberry delights in their cafe, a nursery garden growing strawberries and flowers, and various strawberry jams and chocolates in their shop. ...

Cameron Highlands essential information about planning your trip to the popular Malaysian highlands. About the weather, when to go, where to stay, transportation, banks in Cameron Highlands, petrol station, etc. General information to get you started on your holiday vacation trip! ...

Twin Pines guest house is a budget accommodation in Cameron Highlands located in Tanah Rata within easy walking distance to all the amenities. They consider themselves to be the friendliest guesthouse accommodation in Cameron Highlands! ...

There are many strawberry farms in Cameron Highlands. Looking for pick your own strawberry farms? Find a u pick strawberry farms in Cameron Highlands as an activity to do in this popular Malaysia highlands! ...

Newsletter #16 Cameron Highlands updates. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! This issue some recap on Uncle Chow Kopitiam, info about SPM Resort Home and apartments and Kang Travel. ...